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Zoning, Planning and Use

Jul. 25, 2006

Anderson Initiative Goes to Extraordinary Lengths to Limit Eminent Domain

Focus Column - Anita S. Anderson, an obscure California homeowner, may have a surprising, profound - even revolutionary - effect on eminent domain and land use planning in California.

Focus Column

By John C. Murphy, Jennifer Wood and Lisa Holmes



Anita S. Anderson, an obscure California homeowner, may have a surprising, profound - even revolutionary - effect on eminent domain and land use planning in California. The Anderson Initiative, which just qualified in June for the November ballot, would end the use of eminent domain for redevelopment purposes. Less obviously, the proposed constitutional amendment also will i...

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